id: 86258 accession number: 2016.431 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.431 updated: 2025-02-08 22:03:46.056000 New York policewoman carry CORE members from demonstration at construction-site in Brooklyn, NY, 1963. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.); paper: 25 x 20.3 cm (9 13/16 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2016.431 © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos title: New York policewoman carry CORE members from demonstration at construction-site in Brooklyn, NY title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1963 creation date earliest: 1963 creation date latest: 1963 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos copyright: © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos --- culture: America technique: vintage gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006) - artist Born in Brooklyn to Jewish, working-class parents of Eastern European descent, Leonard Freed (1929–2006) went to Europe to become a painter but instead discovered photography. After studying the medium in New York City, he worked as a documentary photographer and photojournalist in Europe. In 1972 he joined Magnum, the celebrated collaborative photo agency. Freed’s photographs in this exhibition are from Black in White America, a series inspired by an experience he had while covering the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. As he photographed an African American soldier guarding the border, it struck Freed that this man was risking his life to defend a country that limited his own rights. Freed returned to New York to undertake a multiyear exploration of African American life. Freed began shooting around New York, and then traveled extensively throughout the South. He spent time in communities getting to know his subjects, and kept a journal recording his impressions and their stories and words. During these years, he also covered Martin Luther King Jr. and numerous civil rights events, but when Freed published Black in White America in 1968, the book focused instead on the fabric of daily life. As a photojournalist, Freed was an observer rather than a participant, but not an impartial one. He believed that “photography is about who you are. It’s the seeking of truth in relation to yourself.” --- measurements: Image: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Paper: 25 x 20.3 cm (9 13/16 x 8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “LF-BWA-134.1/7500” Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: “BLACKS/Black in/White America” Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: “NOTICE/Photographs must be credited to the photographer and/MAGNUM PHOTOS. Photographs my not be cropped/or altered in any way without prior written approval by/MAGNUM PHOTOS. Photographs consigned by/MAGNUM PHOTOS for your possible use may not be/scanned without the express written permission of/MAGNUM PHOTOS./VIOLATION OF THESE POLICIES WILL RESULT IN FINES AT A MINIMUM OF 100% OF THE USAGE FEE.” Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: “CONS #89994/” Written in black ink on white adhesive label on verso: “CIVIL RIGHTS:/FREED-Black/in White America” Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: “Consignment/#79901 jlm” Written in pencil on verso: “Amer Negro” Written in red marker on verso: “Blacks” Written in blue ink on white adhesive dot sticker on verso: “54” Imprinted on paper label on verso: “69444/Leonard Freed USA 1963 [written in pencil]/New York police women carry CORE members/from demonstration at construction site/in Brooklyn New York./photo from the book: Leonard Freed/”black in white America”. Page 134 [written in pencil]/0 32-37 [crossed out]/014-32-34 [written in black marker and crossed out] = old #s [written in pencil]/63-5-9-37” Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: “Magnum Photos Inc. © 1995 Leonard Freed/[bar code]/FRL014W32/37 CIV 30FRL003+001/Brooklyn, NEW YORK. 1960s [crossed out] 1963 [written in pencil]. During demonstration/inn front of a construction site, NY Police women/arrest a CORE member.” Written in pencil on verso: “LFR5-00328-SP” Written in pencil on verso: “Book: Black in White America/1963 New York City, USA” Written in pencil on verso: “UNIQUE” Stamped in black ink on verso: “VINTAGE PRINT” Written in blue marker on white adhesive label on verso: “80669” Stamped in black ink on verso: “© Leonard Freed-Magnum” Written in pencil on verso: “Leonard Freed (signed)” Magnum photos LOG REF stamp in purple ink on verso is obscured by white label with bar code. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES